The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

Quick Take Achieving the first live photographs of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ended a 66-year mystery since the species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image provided by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tubeworms in ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with life.

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

The deep sea, encompassing the vast, dark, and high-pressure regions beneath the ocean’s surface, is recognised as one of the most biodiverse yet underexplored ecosystems on our planet. Recent studies ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

The organisms living here survive without sunlight and rely on chemical energy.

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...